Last Will and Testament of John Warren of Watertown, 1667

Date: 1667 to 1667
Location: Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Surnames/tags: Warren PGM

Testator: John Warren Sr of Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Persons mentioned:

Daniell Warren, his son

John Warren, his son, executor

Mary Warren Bigelow, his daughter

Elizabeth Warren Knapp, his daughter

James Knapp, his son -in-law

Michaell Jennison alias Bloyce, daughter in law

Richard Bloise, Machall's father (? - Richard Boyse seems to have been her first husband)

Mary Barron Warrin, daughter-in-law

Daniel Warrin, grandson

Mary Bigelow Flagg, granddaughter

Joseph Taynter, witness, possibly Joseph Taynter

John Randole, witness, possibly John Randall

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The Last Will and Testament of John Warren Sen.

In the name of God Amen: I John Warren of Watertowne

in the county of Midlesix wthin the jurisdiction of the

Massachusetts(?) In new England being aged & weake in body but of

good memory blessed & praysed be god: doe make & ordaine this

my Last Will and Testament in maner & forme following (Ill.)

first I Commend my Soule & Spirit into the handes of god that

gave it hoping upon the merrits of Jesus Christ my Saviour

to have eternall Life and my body to the ground weareof itt

was made and to be decently buried p the discretion of my exe

cutor hearafter mentioned

I give & bequeath to my Son Daniell Warren the pcell of

Land that he now Lives on being about the quantity of 16 acres(?)

wth all the apurtenaces of itt: nextly I give & bequeath to

my Son John Warren & my Son Daniell Warren my devident

and all my remote meaddow wth another pcell of remote land

cald p the name of farme land lying & being in watertowne

unto these my two Sonnes equally betweene them

further I give & bequeath to my Son Daniell Warren my best

flocke bed with my greene Ruge that lyeth upon my bed and two(?)

of my 4 pewter platters that(?) are of A (...) & to my daughter

in law Mary Warren wife to my Son Daniell one pewter porenger

further I give & bequeath to my daughter Mary Begalow A

pcell of remote Land being the quantity of 16 acres & is

knowne by the name of the lein of township Land lying in Water

towne & is already in hir posession further I give to my daughter

Mary Begalow i Smale pewter dish wch is marked in the bottome

further I give & bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Knape 13 acres(?):

plow Land lying on the further planie in Watertowne wch hir

husband James Knape hath (illl.)

I give to my aforesaid daughter Elizabeth Knape one from pcell(?)

wch she hath already in hir posession & further I give to my afore

said daughter Elizabeth A booke cald the plaine manes path way to

heaven further I give & bequeath to my grand child Daniell(?) Warren

Son to my Son Daniell Warren one of my Cowes: further I bequeath

to my grand child Mary Begalow A lind box that was my wifes

further I give and bequeath to Machall Bloyce daughter to Richard Bloy

deceased one pewter plate: further I give & bequeath to all (...)

of my grand children to each of them the Som of(?) 2 shillings

six pence: and all the rest of my estat houses Lands

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Goods catle chatles debts or whatsoever is mine not

hearin before bequeathed I doe wholly fully (ill.)

give and bequeath to my beloved Son John Warren makin

and ordaining him my whole and sole executor of this

my Last Will and Testament Willing & requiring him to

pforme all and every the aforesaid pmises respectivly accord

ing to the true Intent and meaning hearof: for Confirma

tion wearof I have heareunto Anexed my hand and Seale

This 30 th Day of November in the yeare 1667:

Wittnes Joseph Taynter

and John Randole

my I marke

John Warren

My (ill.) marke^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org)Last Will and Testament of John Warren, 1667